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Outgoing NATO deputy rues early optimism on Marjah (AP)

Posted on 04 September 2010. Tags: , , , , , ,

U.S. Marines prepare to carry one of two comrades wounded in an IED attack to a waiting U.S. Army Task Force Shadow medevac helicopter on a rescue mission west of Lashkar Gah, in southern Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. Aeromedical teams with the 101st Airborne's Task Force Destiny provide the fast medical evacuation of those wounded throughout southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP – NATO commanders were overly optimistic when they predicted quick success taking the key Taliban-held town of Marjah last winter, the outgoing deputy commander said.


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Afghan militants in US uniforms storm 2 NATO bases (AP)

Posted on 28 August 2010. Tags: , , , , ,

NATO soldiers are seen providing cover for a Chinook helicopter to land in a hostile territory of Khost province in Afghanistan. About two dozen Taliban militants -- including suicide bombers -- were killed Saturday in a failed attempt to storm two US-run bases in a volatile town in eastern Afghanistan, NATO said.(AFP/File/David Furst)AP – U.S. and Afghan troops repelled attackers wearing American uniforms and suicide vests in a pair of simultaneous assaults before dawn Saturday on NATO bases near the Pakistani border, including one where seven CIA employees died in a suicide attack last year.


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Insurgents attack 2 NATO bases in east Afghanistan (AP)

Posted on 28 August 2010. Tags: , , , , ,

A U.S. Army soldier of the 101st Airborne Division walks along a road during a day of joint missions with the Afghan Army, in Zhari district, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Thursday Aug. 26, 2010. Soldiers in Zhari operate in a district which is the birthplace of the Taliban movement, and holds many well-armed insurgents who blend in with a support network providing them with explosives and safe havens. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP – Insurgents launched pre-dawn attacks on a pair of NATO bases in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, but were beaten back after inflicting little damage, the coalition and Afghan police said.


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Afghanistan: NATO strike kills 2 fleeing militants (AP)

Posted on 15 August 2010. Tags: , , , , ,

FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2010 file photo, Afghans gather at the scene of an attack on a presidential adviser in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. Militants attacked the second government official in the east on the same day. The convoy was hit by a remote-controlled bomb hidden in a rickshaw as it was driving through city, police said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)AP – NATO forces killed two insurgents who attacked a police station in northern Afghanistan by hitting their truck with an airstrike as they fled the area, the coalition said Sunday.


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NATO: Roadside bomb kills 3 Afghan civilians (AP)

Posted on 11 August 2010. Tags: , , , , ,

Relatives and friends carry coffin of Jawed, 27, one of the two Afghans killed by gunmen in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, from a morgue in a military hospital in Kabul. The FBI is conducting its own probe into the deaths of six Americans citizens who were among eight foreigners gunned down in northeastern Afghanistan in an attack claimed by the Taliban, a US official said Monday.(AFP/Shah Marai)AP – A roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan killed three Afghan civilians, NATO forces said Wednesday.


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Dutch become 1st NATO member to quit Afghanistan (AP)

Posted on 01 August 2010. Tags: , , , , ,

Afghan woman protesters chant slogans against NATO and US forces over the killing of Afghan civilians in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug 1, 2010. More than 400 demonstrators marched toward the presidential palace in Kabul to protest the alleged killing of 52 civilians by a NATO rocket strike in the south. NATO has disputed the report of civilian deaths. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP – The Netherlands became the first NATO country to end its combat mission in Afghanistan, drawing the curtain Sunday on a four-year operation that was deeply unpopular at home and even brought down a Dutch government.


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Taliban stymie NATO push to bolster government (AP)

Posted on 29 July 2010. Tags: , , , , ,

In this July 12, 2010 photo, the new Arghandab district chief Shah Mohammad Ahmadi speaks with an Afghan National Police officer following a security briefing at the district headquarters in the volatile Arghandab Valley near Kandahar City, Afghanistan. This strategic valley on the outskirts of Kandahar is on its third government boss in eight months. The first quit out of fear and frustration. The Taliban assassinated the second. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)AP – This strategic valley on the outskirts of Kandahar is on its third government boss in eight months. The first quit out of fear and frustration. The Taliban assassinated the second.


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Afghans: 52 die in NATO attack; alliance disputes (AP)

Posted on 26 July 2010. Tags: , , , ,

U.S. Army Pfc. Eli Price, of Modesto California, from the 101st Airborne Division sleeps at COP Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Monday, July 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP – The Afghan government said Monday that 52 civilians, including women and children, died when a NATO rocket struck a village in southern Afghanistan last week — a report disputed by the international coalition.


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NATO says 4 dead in shooting at training range (AP)

Posted on 20 July 2010. Tags: , , , , ,

A U.S. Army soldier from the 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division searches an Afghan villager during a foot patrol towards COP Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP – Two American civilians and two Afghan soldiers were killed in a shooting on a northern Afghan military base, NATO said.


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Roadside bombs kill 5 NATO troops in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted on 17 July 2010. Tags: , , , , ,

A United States Marine helicopter door gunner holds a heavy machine gun during a flight over Nimroz Province on the border with the volatile Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan, Saturday, July 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)AP – Five NATO troops died in roadside bombs in Afghanistan, the alliance said Saturday, as international forces announced that they had foiled a terrorist attack on an upcoming conference in Kabul to be attended by leaders from more than 60 nations.


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